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St Dennis and Goss Moor - Indian Queens Primary School

It is an extract from a book he wrote in 2004 called 'St Dennis and Goss Moor', published by...

Disappearing Bomb

There was an elderly man having his dinner in the "Brook" hop garden at the time and later that day...

Why Is It Always The Good-looking Ones That Die?

Through the offices of a Mr Tight, who stayed at the hotel and was high-up in the Merchant Navy, Herbert...

Why Do We Do It? (Wrenbury Remembers P.33)

I only followed orders, God, I did as I was told, And with the crowd I shouted that my birthright had been...

Memories of an Evacuee

My Aunt would come in to the back garden and call me, but I never came down until I heard her leave...

Rose Hall's memoirs

Well, I'd never seen anything bigger than a dog before, so when she started milking a cow, I was sent...

Attack on an August Afternoon

With reference to your war time memories, an item featured recently on your programme and television was an...

Childhood in Wartime

I spied a sliver of lemon curd in a little cake... I was in a lemon curd heaven for a while!!...

This story is about the civilian forces and children.

This was the day when me and my friends Maureen Dalgliesh, Eileen McDougal and Brian McDougal. We lived 2...

Memories of Evacuation and Bombs

As a 13 year old girl in 1939 I was a pupil at Saint Andrews R. C. Mixed School in Newcastle and...

Back Home 1940

Meanwhile we were given lessons in people's houses for a couple of hours each day, needless to say the...

At War - Village Style

We used to go to school in Syston which is about a mile away and is the next village to us, and...

"Lawn Mowers in the Sky"

The French windows and doors leading to the garden were covered by sand bags outside and thick heavy...

Kenneth Clayton's War

I was eleven when the War started and I was evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool with my brothers and...

Amy and Jack Meeting 1944

Mum forged grandad's signature to join the WAAFs as she was too young and was posted to Graveley in...

Life after birth in an air raid shelter in Northumberland

Dad was a miner and Mum was a housewife. My first haircut was called a pudding basin cut, where my Dad put...

The Blitz Begins

Like most boys at the time, I was very keen on aircraft recognition and could recognise all the RAF and...

Working on the land in Shropshire

There were officers at the Hall and Nissen huts for the soldiers. There were dances and whistdrives held in...

IT WAS A VERY PECULIAR TIME

PEOPLE IN STORY: Rita Langley nee Parker LOCATION OF STORY: Reading MAIN AREA OF INTEREST: Childhood,...

Roy Finlay's story

People who used to own biggish cars, if there was a car the army were very fond of, it was requisitioned....

My war

They built the Finchingfield Estate off Snakes Lane and the Staines Bridge over the Thames. As children we...

A Teachers Tale

Another story from Sylvia gives an insight to the desperate shortage of skilled, professional workers,...

Butter, beetroot and the blackout

So I'll hang on to my memories of butter, beetroot and the blackout and be greatful....

DOODLES, STUKERS AND EXPLODING MUD: an Essex childhood

An aircraft came down and the men in the brickyard thought the pilot was German and wanted to shoot him but...

AIR RAIDS

John's father was in charge of the Home Guard at Crompton Parkinson's, and his mother was recalled...

Evacuee

Jean, our sister, also went to work in the ammonium factory, my brother Billy, the baby of the family was...